Pouch.



Nu. 673,82l. Patented May, 7, I901.

C. C. BAHN.

POUCH.

(Application filed Feb. 1, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITE STATES PATENT FFICE.

CHARLES C. RAHN, OF THOMPSONVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

POUCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 673,821, dated May '7, 1901.

Application filed February 1, 1901. Serial No. 45,655. [No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that LCHARLES C.RAHN,a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Thompsonville, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Im provementsin Pouches,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to flap closing pouches constructed from textile or similar material which when closed have preferably a rectangular box-like form and are adapted for holding tobacco and similar substances and conveniently permitting portions of the contents thereof to be removed by the opening of a single one of the several flaps thereof while the other flaps remain closed; and the invention consists in'the peculiar construction of the pouch, its flaps, and means for interconnecting said flaps, whereby the manipulation thereof as aforesaid is provided for, all as hereinafter fully set forth, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of the pouch with its cover-flaps opened outwardly and illustrating the box-like form of the body of the same when the four corners thereof shall have been united by stitching. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the pouch closed and so held by its encircling cord. Fig. 3 is a similar View to Fig. 2, but showing the top flap of the last-named figure turned outwardly from over the other three flaps and projecting horizontally from the side of which it is a part, and showing the looped binding-cord passing through an-eyelet in said outwardlyturned flap and 'a loop-connected button on its pending portion. This figure also shows one means for opening one side only of the pouch for removing more or less of the contents thereof. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the pouch, illustrating a manner of opening one side of the pouch for rescaling the contents thereof, differing from that shown in Fig. 3, as hereinafter described.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates the bottom of the box-shaped pouch-body, and c, d, e, and f four cover-flaps, one on the upper edge of each of the four sides 6 of the said body. It is obvious that the open position of the pouch, as shown in Fig. 1, provides for conveniently and rapidly filling the same either by hand or by machinery. The said flaps constitute an efficient cover for protecting the contents of the box when they shall be folded over the open side thereof in the manner illustrated in Fig. 2 and there secured by a proper binding-cord j, which for the purposes of this invention is elastic and consists of the ordinary braid-covered rubber to the end that when passed from the eyelet i, Fig. 2, in opposite directions over the outer flap f and around the pouch it holds the several flaps closely one against the other, and thus closes the pouch and prevents the escape of the contents thereof. W hen this lastdescribed flap-fastening is practiced, the button m, which is secured on the looped extremity of said cord in the manner shown in Fig. 3, is brought against the outer side of the bottom A of the pouch and the cord is there held by the elastic strain thereof.

In pouches heretofore made and designed principally for holding tobacco the parts thereof provided for closing the opening therein through which the contents are introduced and withdrawn have been of such construction that the pouch under such conditions was either wholly closed or wholly open, and consequently when opened considerable waste of the contents took place when attempting to withdraw a comparatively small quantity, and one purpose of this invention is to provide an improved pouch construction which prevents said waste, and to that end said flap parts are connected by said binding-cord j and manipulated in the belowdescribed manner. Said binding-cord doubled, as shown, is attached to one of the coverflaps, as shown on flap d in Fig. l, and before attaching the free end thereof to the button m said end is passed successively through the eyelets of the flaps c, f, and e, and then said button is attached, as in Fig. 8. As aforesaid, the closing of the filled pouch is efiected, preferably, by folding the flap d first upon the contents, as indicated in Figs. 2, 3, and at, after which the flap f is folded upon the flap cl, and then the flap c or e is folded upon the flap f and the remaining flap forming the outer cover, and all are then secured in shut positions, as in Fig. 2. The flap f can then be turned outward to partially open one side only of the pouch by taking the latter by one border, pressing the fingers against the flap 6, (see Fig. 2,) and holding that and the two flaps c and d thereunder closely against the contents of the pouch while the cord is removed from around the same, and then either one of the said four flaps may be drawn to partly open a side of the pouch, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4c. The elasticity of said cord permits said flap manipulation, and when returned to the position shown in Fig. 2 all the flaps and the cord are again in positions to close the pouch. Thus either flap may be opened just far enough to enable a person to insert two fingers or more into the pouch without opening the same sufliciently to permit any waste of the contents, for the binding-cord j is constantly acting in opposition to the opening movement of the flaps and tends to draw the latter against the fingers when inserted into the pouch, as aforesaid.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A pouch of flexible material open at one side, separate overlapping fiaps for closing said open side, an aperture in each flap adapted to approximately register vertically one with the other when the flaps are infolded one over the other, and means of connection between said flaps whereby the extension of one flap will operate to draw the other flaps together, substantially as described.

2. A pouch for tobacco or similar substances, constructed from flexible material comprising a hollow body, several-overlapping flaps constituting extensions of the sides of the pouch for closing one open side of the latter, and means for drawing said flaps into overlapping end-closing position consisting of a flexible member attached to one of the flaps, apertures in the other flaps adapted to approximately register one with the other when the pouch is closed, through which apertures said cord passes, and whereby when any one of said flaps may be withdrawn to open one side of the pouch, said flexible member will operate to draw the remaining flaps closer to the pouch-body, substantially as described.

3. A pouch for tobacco or'similar substances constructed from flexible material, comprising a body of rectangular form, separatelymovable flaps attached to each side of said body, and folding in superposed positions one over the other across an open side of the pouch to form a closure therefor, in combination with a cord passing transversely through said flaps when the latter are infolded, and whereby all or certain of said flaps are retained in a closing position, substantially as described.

I CHARLES C. RAHN.

Witnesses:

H. A. OHAPIN, K. I. OLnMoNs. 

